Cloudscape 2016 : Towards better public procurement of cloud services in Europe

A Digital Single Market will enable better public procurement of cloud services in Europe by facilitating common definitions of requirements and increasing the potential for joint procurement across borders. Pooling common public requirements could bring higher efficiency, reduce costs and enable interoperability. Higher quality services, more competition, rapid standardisation and better market opportunities for SMEs can also benefit the private sector.

Chair: Bob Jones, CERN & Coordinator, PICSE & HNSciCloud

Introduction from Dirk van Rooy, Head of Sector European Cloud Partnership, European Commission

• Nicky Stewart, Skyscape Cloud, UK G-Cloud provider 
• Tony Richards, CTO & Cloud Security Advisor for HM Government, UK
• Linda Strick, Business Developer, Fraunhofer FOKUS
• Marc-Elian Bégin, Co-founder, SixSq
• David Bicket, Cloud Industry Forum

Topics

• Challenges in procuring cloud services
• Best practices in Europe: UK G-Cloud and others
• How joint procurement can speed up adoption
• Call for action for policy makers and service providers in relation to DSM Action #16.

Download now the PICSE position paper.